As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

I only regret that I wanted to kill the thief but had no time to save him.

With a long sigh, he left the observation instrument and said to Amelia beside him:

"I've taken one last look. Let's go."

After leaving the shell, the streets that were once considered noisy and crowded were already empty. The entire nest was as silent as a dead city. Only the various fighter planes flying overhead from time to time indicated the presence of humans.

ps: As long as you have a ticket...as long as you can get to that place...

Chapter 119: The Sky Collapses and the Earth Collapses

After walking for a distance, the two men got on a refurbished light armored vehicle, quickly drove through several streets, and arrived at a square.

Several Valkyries and a Thunderhawk gunboat are anchored here.

This was one of the last evacuation areas.

Speaking of Valkyrie, Zhang Ge remembered that there was a Valkyrie that was sent to the military priest for inspection for some unknown reason, but in the end the priest could not find any problems.

He could only conclude that it was the machine soul that caused the unknown influence, but this influence was completely invisible when the machine soul was unwilling to pay attention to people.

The final result was to seal the Valkyrie and transport it away for further investigation, and to give the relevant pilots a temporary leave.

But what surprised everyone was that the Valkyrie flew away and was stolen during the transportation process and has been missing since then. The Mechanicus was furious and conducted a carpet search for two days, but ultimately found no clues, as if the plane had flown away on its own.

Due to time constraints, the priests could only give up their plan to continue searching while cursing. This incident is said to have become an urban legend.

It is said that late at night, a Valkyrie fighter plane without a pilot will appear quietly at the window, and use the empty cockpit to check the people in the room.

However, according to Zhang Ge, this is just for fun. He has already beaten the Chaos Demon, so why should he be afraid of urban legends?

Thinking about these gossips, under Osgus's command, Zhang Ge parked the car outside the Thunder Eagle gunboat.

After the two men got off the car, the other party moved down from the gunboat, the activated magnetic suction module making a slight sound with every step, and came to the side of the car body. Then he squatted down, reached his hand under the car and lifted the entire light armored vehicle directly with a burst of force.

The dust stuck under the wheels rose slightly.

Since there was no way to be sure whether the machine spirit of the Thunderhawk gunship was willing to come into contact with two strangers, even though the chance of an accident was very small, Osgus still decided to choose the safest option to avoid any accidents at this critical juncture.

With his footsteps becoming noticeably heavier, the vehicle was carried step by step and then placed inside the gunboat.

After the two sides greeted each other again, Zhang Ge turned and walked towards the designated Valkyrie.

When he stepped into the Valkyrie's cabin, the other four people - including the engineer Yolanda - and several veterans were already seated inside, and he also found a seat and sat down.

The sound of machinery operating brought some comfort to this empty and dead city. The tail hatch slowly closed after the various safety mechanisms were engaged.

The engine noise gradually grew louder, and blue flames spewed out of the nozzle.

No one suspected this Valkyrie, which had been identified by all friendly forces but was independent of the fleet. Other pilots believed that it was a special plane ordered by Zhang Ge. For a person of that level, it was normal for him to be special.

Zhang Ge himself believed that this was a special plane allocated by the fleet for him, and he did not think there was anything strange about it.

Fighter planes took off one after another. The Valkyrie and the Thunderhawk gunboat were clustered in the middle of the group, flying normally.

However, the cockpit, where the reflective lights were turned on and the situation could not be seen from the outside, was empty.

The fleet first flew out of the hive, then climbed upwards, and then circled to the airport at the edge of the tower.

The chaotic scene of two days ago is no longer there. Tens of thousands of soldiers in helmets and armor are lined up in neat rows. Looking from above, it looks like a military green metal ocean, flowing at a very fast speed.

One by one, they passed the simple physical examination before entering the ship, and then entered the interior of the docked transport ship, as orderly as a magnificent machine in operation.

Only this kind of execution capability can enable one-by-one inspections to be carried out within a limited time. Previously, the transportation of civilians was just about cramming as many people as possible into the ship, and the inspection of civilians could only be carried out by the Hyperion District after landing.

Of course, the fighter jets did not need to go through the following process. The fleet flew directly to an ordinary ship in the fleet, and one by one changed into hovering mode and stopped on the take-off and landing platform at the top of the ship.

Dozens of military aircraft are parked here like aircraft carriers, and a large number of ship-borne anti-aircraft guns stand still. It is obvious that their functions are not as simple as they appear.

The hatch opened, and several soldiers trotted to the hatch and waited before everyone left the plane. They were holding a detector-like instrument. After each person was scanned, the screen would show green before they could leave and pick up the next person.

Amelia was the second to last, and when it was her turn, the soldier saluted before starting the scan.

However, as soon as the green light marking the area hit Amelia, the device exploded in a burst of crisp electric sparks, splashing blood all over the hand of the soldier holding the scanner.

The situation suddenly became awkward.

Although everyone knew that this was just a formality, when such an accident happened, on the one hand, it would not be good to keep several people where they were on the pretext of reporting to their superiors or changing equipment, but on the other hand, a few mere soldiers had no right to waive the procedure.

It was only when Atwood came over to help that the atmosphere was eased and several soldiers were sent away.

Zhang Ge followed Amelia and witnessed the whole process, and was also exempted from the process.

Glancing at the component fragments on the ground, Zhang Ge secretly vowed to himself that he would walk ahead of Amelia next time, and walked down the tail cabin muttering to himself.

When that step falls.

The brightness of the lights on the take-off and landing platform suddenly increased dramatically - this was a sign that the ship's energy supply was being increased at a very fast rate, usually a secondary phenomenon caused by the ship entering combat mode and charging its weapon systems or shields at full speed.

Those originally quiet anti-aircraft guns also began to rotate at high speed.

The crowd still above was immediately alerted by this unusual movement, and some fighter planes that were about to land even turned to take off again.

For a moment, there was chaos everywhere, with heavy footsteps. Even Zhang Ge and his group had to find a shelter to hide temporarily.

After the chaos came silence, so quiet that the only sound was the jet sounds of fighter planes taking off again one after another, but the imagined attack never happened.

A moment later, the captain's slightly nervous voice came over the radio, explaining:

"Report, the abnormal situation is only caused by incorrect operation, not an enemy attack, report..."

As the notification sounded, the originally bright lights and other things gradually returned to normal, as if the abnormality was really just caused by an erroneous operation.

Of course, Zhang Ge and his companions had no idea whether there was any secret at this time. He was just a little sad that two disappointments in a short period of time were satisfied at once.

The team quickly got back on track and headed towards their destination inside the ship.

There will be a war council regarding the fleet and the aftermath.

That's right, the ship under Zhang Ge's feet is the command ship of this last fleet. It is an armed carrier that is even allowed to have small-scale military air defense firepower and shield systems. It is also a ship used to carry Titans.

After the last person entered the fleet, the huge fleet slowly started up, and countless plasma tail flames that could do anything without any scruples even directly melted and destroyed the surface of the airport behind it.

The bright flames looked like rising stars.

Shortly after the fleet left, the line of defense relying on light infantry, although extremely tenacious, could not hold out for long and was crushed by the further Chaos Space Marines and armored attacks.

The innocent aliens and the innocent civilians involved were all turned into corpses.

Chaos eventually poured into this empty city.

However, after easily crushing some scattered resistance within, the Chaos commander quickly realized something was wrong.

The inside of the hive was a little too clean. Not to mention the bombs that would disgust them, even the common mines used to increase the difficulty of occupation were not seen. Many facilities had not even been deliberately destroyed.

It's ten or even nine out of ten wrong.

He immediately ordered the troops inside the city to evacuate.

But it was too late. Only extremely fast troops such as Space Marines and fighter planes could withdraw from the killing range before the light came on.

That was a nuclear warhead.

Of course, it is not a nuclear bomb in the sense of ancient humans.

This kind of "nuclear warhead" in the imperial definition only needs a small one - about the size of an intercontinental missile warhead - to be launched on the surface, and the explosion caused by it can directly penetrate the earth's strata.

If it is activated in a hive, it will certainly be enough to directly destroy an entire small hive, even if it is a giant city that can accommodate hundreds of millions of people.

Nuclear weapons capable of modifying the entire planet's landscape are strictly controlled and are usually only seen on Astra Militarum missile units or naval warships.

Unfortunately, the nobles of Akaolan had made sufficient preparations for the alien underground long ago, and were ready to have enough power to destroy the evidence even if the hive fell.

And through the rejuvenation potion, they had enough channels to get such a little gadget.

Even more unfortunate is that if this nuclear bomb was buried outside or launched towards Chaos, Chaos would have ten thousand ways to intercept it.

But it is not, it is built into the deepest part of the hive's countless ceramite buildings, and now it is activated.

So, at this time.

As it engulfed the steel forest, it broke out of its shell, spreading and tearing apart the dark clouds that had enveloped this place for countless years.

The sky is falling and the earth is falling.

ps: This chapter should be the last chapter of this volume. It is nearly 3K long, so it is a little late.

ps2: I'm writing it, please vote for it TvT.

Volume Two

Chapter 120: I have never fought such a rich battle

The dazzling white ball of light began to rise from the core of the hive and swallowed everything in an instant.

Countless ceramic and steel buildings were as fragile as bubbles in front of it, and disintegrated in an instant under the central temperature of billions of degrees Celsius.

In each of the small cube-sized rooms, traces of life of countless generations were wiped out in an instant.

Under the extreme destructive power created by this great power of civilization, everything seems so pale.

One kilometer, ten kilometers, twenty kilometers...

The nuclear fireball seemed to engulf everything endlessly, and the violent shock wave pushed out by the high temperature and high pressure silently and quickly hit the closed shell of the hive.

A terrifying phenomenon occurred.

The originally extremely solid shell was cracked in countless cracks in an instant, and was then directly blasted open by the shock wave. The towering nest was like a collapsed metal mountain, but even more deadly.

The dissolved metal droplets can even be thrown to an extremely high altitude of hundreds of kilometers, and the fragments that turn into deadly shrapnel are countless and hit the surroundings like a rain curtain.

Inside the shattered hive city, the dazzling light appeared. An extremely bright ball of light was wrapped in a mushroom cloud, surging upwards. The mushroom cloud extended to a height of hundreds of kilometers and could be clearly seen even in space.

The shock wave spread outwards, visible to the naked eye, and the fate of any living creature caught in it was no surprise.

But being killed quickly by the shock wave and shrapnel was already a blessing.

Because the heat that follows outward also expands, igniting anything that reaches its ignition point, including the human body.

Despite the presence of the hive as a cutoff, the radius covered by the heat ray still reached tens of kilometers.

If you stand a little further away, you can experience the feeling of being roasted from the outside in.

Then came blindness caused by intense radiation, earthquakes, and high brightness.

The aftermath of these nuclear bombs continued to expand under the Chaos Commander's gloomy gaze.

Just this moment of light, if the Chaos Space Marines are not counted, the damage caused to the Chaos side has exceeded the total damage caused to them by Akaolan before.

It is undeniable that the vast majority of Chaos Cultists are nothing more than cannon fodder that can be consumed at will, but even if they are cannon fodder, wasting so many of them at once will have a certain degree of impact on subsequent plans.

If there was anything that could comfort him, it was that, in terms of pure economic value, a hive was far more valuable than those cultists.

At the other end, on the command ship that had already flown a long distance away, Zhang Ge came to the rear of the warship and looked at the mushroom cloud that could be clearly seen even from a long distance.

The meeting that just took place was very brief for Zhang Ge. The really useful part was actually about what affairs a certain ship was responsible for in a certain direction. The so-called aftermath that followed was just about rewarding each person based on their merits and passing the buck.

Zhang Ge had no interest in those things and simply found a reason to leave. He wished those people would throw all the blame on him and then pin him to the deck and shoot him.

At one side, the deputy commander of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment—the former deputy commander, to whom Zhang Ge later simply handed the position back—came over and reported:

"The total death toll is 2368, and the number of people who have lost their combat capability is 1561."

After hearing the number of casualties, Zhang Ge pondered for a moment and analyzed its meaning.

In other words, more than 4,000 people have withdrawn from the sequence, which is not a small number.

Although the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment officially has more than 20,000 people, after excluding various logistics personnel, the combat personnel are actually more than 10,000, and a large part of these more than 10,000 are armored vehicle drivers, truck drivers, artillerymen and the like.

The actual front-line combat infantry is probably only about half of the total, and most of the casualties are actually borne by these infantry.

This means that in that short period of combat, even if the entire battle was unstoppable, the losses of the front-line infantry may still have been close to 50%.

"Are there any reinforcements?"